Henry Ford's war on Jews and the legal battle against hate speech
TitleHenry Ford's war on Jews and the legal battle against hate speech
Author
Call number346.744034/0001
Object number08841
Place of publicationStanford, California, United States
PublisherStanford University Press
Year of publication
2013
Physical description424p., index, bibliography
MaterialBook
ISBN9780804772341
Noteselectronic device
Description
This is the story of Ford's ownership of the Dearborn Independent, his involvement in the defamatory articles it ran, and the two Jewish lawyers, Aaron Sapiro and Louis Marshall, who each tried to stop Ford's war.
In 1927, the case of Sapiro v. Ford transfixed the nation. In order to end the embarrassing litigation, Ford apologized for the one thing he would never have lost on in court: the offense of hate speech.